The WhatcomTalk Events Calendar shares things to do around Whatcom County including Bellingham, Ferndale, Lynden, Blaine and beyond. Find fun activities and adventures throughout the region on our comprehensive events calendar. Have an event that isn’t listed? Click the green “Post your Event” button and our editors will review and approve within two business days.
Help support the Friends of the North Fork Community Library at their annual sale of gently used books and delectable baked goods. Proceeds from this sale support updates to the library and programs for all ages.
Celebrate the holiday season and help the Southern Resident Orca Whales with an evening full of holiday dancing, catered dessert, savory delights, drinks and more. Dress your best to dance the night away at Fairhaven’s newest landmark, the Orca Building.
Tickets are $100 and all profits go to the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association, to help provide the Orca Whales the gift of more salmon.
Tickets can be purchased at: www.PeterJamesPhotoGallery.com/winterfestball
A Silent Auction will provide another way to help provide the whales, more salmon, and to go home with a variety of products, services and meals from other local merchants. Silent Auction Contributors Include: Village Books, Advanced Medical Massage, Blessings Salon, The Grotto Salon, 12th Street Shoes, Drizzle, Southside Trends, Bay to Baker, Tony’s Coffee Roasters, Springhill Suites Marriott, Nell Thorne Restaurant, Peter James Photography Gallery and more.
Can you believe that 2020 is right around the corner?! Let’s celebrate the end of the 2010s in style. Knut of Paellaworks will be here to serve up delicious oysters! And because we know that this is an exhausting time of year for us all, we’ve decided to celebrate the EAST COAST ball drop! We’ll do a Cava toast at 9pm, hugs & kisses all around, and then it’ll be time to either go home and rest or go to the next bar to celebrate Central time zone’s ball drop. Sparkles, glitter, and glam attire is encouraged, but not required. No cover, just come celebrate with us!
Enjoy Easter Brunch at Bellingham’s premier waterfront dining destination, The Lighthouse Grill. On Sunday, April 4th from 7am-8pm Chef Scott Emerick will be serving curated specials for the day and will be serving brunch from 7am-3pm and dinner from 3pm-8pm. Please call 360.392.3200 to make your reservations in advance.
September 2nd The Jansen Art Center will be hosting its first day of the Fall Exhibits, including the Fall Juried Show and three solo shows, open for all to enjoy from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Artists with their work displayed will be present to engage with the community during the launch of all the fall exhibits. Hope to see you there!
The 36th annual Lynden Lions Club Model Train & Toy Show features over 50,000 sq. ft. of running model train layouts, exhibits, and vendors. Trains of all gauges for train buffs of all ages. This year we are adding toy vendors to make the show an even more enjoyable family event. All profits go to Lions Club community projects.
The 36th annual Lynden Lions Club Model Train & Toy Show features over 50,000 sq. ft. of running model train layouts, exhibits, and vendors. Trains of all gauges for train buffs of all ages. This year we are adding toy vendors to make the show an even more enjoyable family event. All profits go to Lions Club community projects.
Join us at our Yule Boutique! You won’t want to miss our famous 15-foot-long table loaded with cookies, candies, and cakes. Also featured are handcrafted gifts, holiday decorations and vintage linens & collectibles. Free admission.
All proceeds support Assistance League of Bellingham’s five community programs in Whatcom County. For more information, 360-738-2803 or contact@albham.org.
Join us at our Yule Boutique! You won’t want to miss our famous 15-foot-long table loaded with cookies, candies, and cakes. Also featured are handcrafted gifts, holiday decorations and vintage linens & collectibles. Free admission. Face masks required. Due to Covid, refreshments will not be served this year.
All proceeds support Assistance League of Bellingham’s five community programs in Whatcom County. For more information, 360-738-2803 or contact@albham.org.
https://www.assistanceleague.org/bellingham/
Join Seattle-based outdoor photographer Scott Kranz for an online slideshow and discussion of tools and techniques for learning how to shoot in manual mode when photographing natural landscapes.
Learn the ins and outs of the “exposure triad” settings: shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, and explore how (and when) to take over creative control by using your camera’s various modes, including shutter priority, aperture priority, and full manual.
This course is welcome to all, but will be best suited for beginner and intermediate photographers who have yet to fully master manual shooting with their DSLR or mirrorless cameras.
Scott Kranz (@scott_kranz) is a professional photographer, filmmaker, educator, and speaker who has used his creative vision and natural talents to become an industry leader, partnering with the world’s top outdoor and tech brands while shooting on all seven continents.
If you can’t make this specific date or time, you can still register and we will send you a link to view the class on your own time! All registrants will have access to the class recording for a limited time after the program.
Over 350 glaciers melt into the Skagit river, providing an abundance of cold, fast flowing rivulets cascading down the valley’s steep mountainsides. Join us in North Cascades National Park as we visit many of these waterfalls and learn how to capture the essence of these powerful cataracts with flawless composition, and long exposure photography.
There is plenty of parking around each of the water falls where we plan to take wonderful images, with many different elements to create your compositions; a suspension bridge, beautifully sculpted rock, ponds & pools, and dramatic heights. Some ofWashington State’s more breathtaking views are these very falls.
Potential topics covered:
How to use filters to capture dramatic light or create long-exposure effects
Waiting for the right moment to shoot
Aperture, shutter speed and ISO
Discussions on getting the correct exposure
How to fine tune exposure and use of histograms
White balance settings for changing environments
Learning how to create dynamic compositions
How to use Polarizer & ND filters
Let accomplished Pacific Northwest photographer Juan Aguilera teach you how to capture with your camera what you’re seeing in your mind’s eye.
The cats at NEKO are so egg-cited to invite you to their all-ages egg hunt! When the Easter Bunny hopped in the cafe and saw 20+ kitties, they turned around and hopped right back out, dropping ALL the eggs! Now, the kitties need your help to find the egg that matches them! From April 16-17, the whole family can hop in to snuggle adoptable Easter Kitties, sip on a drink, and search for eggs in return for adorable purrizes!
The cats at NEKO are so egg-cited to invite you to their all-ages egg hunt! When the Easter Bunny hopped in the cafe and saw 20+ kitties, they turned around and hopped right back out, dropping ALL the eggs! Now, the kitties need your help to find the egg that matches them! From April 16-17, the whole family can hop in to snuggle adoptable Easter Kitties, sip on a drink, and search for eggs in return for adorable purrizes!
Once a year, Peter James releases a new collection of vibrant nature photography that captures the essence of the dramatic beauty of Washington State. Each year, his work gets better, and this year it has also gotten much bigger. In addition to 26 new single images, he is also introducing 16 ultra high-resolution images that are printed as 3 or 5 panel prints from 6 feet up to 20 feet wide. These prints are magical to experience in person!
The event will also feature wine and appetizers, as well as a big screen slideshow of all 42 new images. If you haven’t been into the gallery recently, this is your perfect opportunity. If you have, why not bring your friends and share the beauty of our amazing area with them?
Contact the gallery with any questions (360) 733-9377, or browse Peter’s breathtaking work today at:
https://www.peterjamesphotogallery.com/
Join us at our Annual Yule Boutique!
You won’t want to miss our famous 15-foot-long table loaded with cookies, candies, and cakes. Also featured are handcrafted gifts, holiday decorations and vintage linens and collectibles. Free admission.
All proceeds support Assistance League of Bellingham’s five community programs in Whatcom County. For more information, 360-738-2803 or contact@albham.org.
The Koma Kulshan Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society hosts chapter meetings on the third Wednesday of every month between September and May. We are proud to offer these educational seminars free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!
Location: Sustainable Living Center (SLC) education room at the ReStore (2309 Meridian St.). The entrance is off the back alley and the SLC is upstairs.
The Goat Rocks Wilderness lies on the Cascade crest between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams and includes one of the most scenic portions of the Pacific Crest Trail. In August 2021, our speaker and his husband spent a week backpacking there, visiting Snowgrass Flats, Cispus Basin, and Goat Lake. The WNPS plant list for the area includes over 270 taxa, some common throughout the Cascades and a few that were new to him. He’ll share floristic highlights of the area.
Please visit our website for more details.
While attending WNPS events, please observe these policies, in effect since March 2022. Please do not attend an event if either of the following are true:
– You currently have any COVID symptoms or have had symptoms in the past 14 days
– You have any reason to quarantine according to the CDC.
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Join Paul Bannick for a program featuring video, sound, stories from the field and several dozen new images from his award-winning and best-selling bird book: Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls.
Paul uses intimate yet dramatic images to follow owls through the course of one year and in their distinct habitats. Audiences will witness the four seasons on territory, as each stage in an owl’s life is chronicled through rare images: courtship, mating, and nesting in spring; fledging and feeding of young in summer; dispersal and gaining independence in fall; and, finally, winter’s migrations and competitions for food. His program shows how owls use the unique resources available to them in each habitat to face those challenges.
The cats at NEKO are so egg-cited to invite you to their all-ages egg hunt! When the Easter Bunny hopped in the cafe and saw 20+ kitties, they turned around and hopped right back out, dropping ALL the eggs! Now, the kitties need your help to find the egg that matches their bow ties! On April 9th, the whole family can hop in to snuggle adoptable Easter Kitties, grab a drink, and search for eggs in return for adorable purrizes!
Reservations are highly recommended, so get your paws on tickets at nekocatcafe.com for Apr 9 to ensure you don’t miss this egg-ceptionally cute day!
Tidal – a dance piece about water … or a dance piece about influence and connection, inevitability and change
Tidal is a dance piece that emerged from a want to collaborate with really good artists: Helen Scholtz – photographer, Jessica Ardis – poet, Charles Halka – composer.
Scholtz’s images of water often look like abstract paintings. She captures texture, light, and movement in the natural world, creating images that awaken the senses and peak curiosity. Jessica’s poetry is blunt, succinct and somehow feels simple. There is an immediate relation, or an understanding of her work. She seems to mine our personal thoughts and feelings with her poetry, finding the words we can’t. Halka records sounds from the world and uses these sounds as the instruments in his work. For Tidal he uses recordings of the rushing water of the Nooksack River, the trickle of streams fed by melting snow at Heather Meadows, or the pouring rain in his backyard. The score is an orchestration of these natural sounds, at times heavily manipulated, to create the original sound score.
Eighteen dancers, ages 19-79, and Pam Kuntz dove into Scholtz’s photography and Ardis’ poetry. Memories and sensations filled their process as metaphors unfolded and the piece took shape. They created numerous “movement portraits” offering glimpses into how we live in our world – who we are, how we relate, and what our actions or reactions may mean. Some feel human, some feel environmental, some float perfectly between the two…the resistance and persistence of water carving a path and shaping our landscape lives inside the dynamic of human relations and interactions, the rhythm of tides and the unfolding of change through repetition over time exists in the human body.
Tidal is created by Jessica Ardis, Alona Christman, Cara Congelli, Tracy Dahlstedt, Vanessa Daines, Rebecca deGraw, Shoshanah Epstein, Dudley Evenson, Charles Halka, Karen Kao, Pam Kuntz, Susan Marriott, Samantha Martin, Marissa Moeri, Lucy Morse, Katy Mullen, Helen Scholtz, Angela Sebastian, and Cindy Whiston (Annie Molsberry, Bailey Kager, and Joyce Harvey-Morgan early contributors)
Koma Kulshan Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society
January Chapter Meeting
“Bees and Pollinators Through the Macro Lens”
Many people are unaware of the fascinating diversity of bees and other pollinators around the world. For example, in the state of Washington alone there are upwards of 700 species of native bees. To the naked eye, many of these organisms look like nothing more than a mundane house fly. Through the macro lens, however, a vastly different world is revealed. In this presentation, Aidan Hersh will showcase the beautiful bees and pollinators of Washington and beyond. Aidan Hersh is a macro photographer and native bee enthusiast living in Bellingham. He serves on the board of the Washington Native Bee Society and the steering committee of the Washington Bee Atlas. He hopes that his photography will spark interest in the too often forgotten yet vitally important world of bees and pollinators. His photos can be found on Instagram @photo.by.aidan.
Calling all shutterbugs and budding botanists! Join us for a fun hiking adventure through enchanting Maple Creek Park. Whether you’re a seasoned lensman or a smartphone shutterbug, this adventure welcomes everyone to capture the beauty of Pacific Northwest native plants, drizzle or shine. (After all, drizzle just adds a touch of forest magic!) well meander along a scenic trail, keeping our eyes peeled for native plants, from towering cedars to delicate ferns. But the real magic happens when we pool our collective knowledge. Think of it as a nature bingo with friends, where identifying native plants becomes a shared adventure. This hike is designed to be a leisurely stroll, taking around two hours. But hey, if the forest whispers and the moss-covered trails tempt us to linger, we’ll gladly follow! So, pack your rain gear, grab your camera (any kind will do!), and get ready to immerse yourself in the wonders of Maple Creek Park. We’ll see you there! Bonus tip: Wear comfortable shoes and don’t forget to bring a plant ID book and your curiosity! Contact: Deborah Baker, polarcollision (at) gmail (dot) com. Limit 10
Photos by Deborah Baker
Hoppy Easter! Celebrate Easter with St. Francis of Bellingham Avamere! Residents and staff at this local skilled nursing facility are excited to welcome you into our facility for this free, fun, family friendly event, for all ages! The egg hunt will begin at 1:30pm. Pictures with the Easter Bunny will start at 1:30pm as well. There will be several activity stations located around our beautiful backyard, as well as food & beverages available for purchase.
Join this immersive 2-day photography clinic with Greg Green and Rich Bowers. Improve your DSLR photography skills while exploring the unique landscape of Land Trust protected properties. Register in advance as spots are limited.
Join this immersive 2-day photography clinic with Greg Green and Rich Bowers. Improve your DSLR photography skills while exploring the unique landscape of Land Trust protected properties. Register in advance as spots are limited.
Register today to hear some amazing tunes from Louis Ledford & Norah McLaughlin, and to get your hands on Daniel Handler’s brand new book before its release date!
Part memoir, part inspiration for aspiring writers, And Then? And Then? What Else? traces Daniel Handler’s sometimes challenging and often amusing path toward one of the most spectacularly successful writing careers of the twenty-first century. Declaring his love of strange literature, Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil in particular, Handler reflects on the life experiences—some of them deeply personal and revealed for the first time—and the cultural influences that shaped his writing, both under his own name and as Lemony Snicket, the lonely, beleaguered, somehow both cynical and romantic narrator of the beloved thirteen-volume saga of three unlucky orphans that became one of the best-selling series of all time. Inspiring, revelatory, and entertaining, And Then? And Then? What Else? is destined to become a classic of its genre, every bit as influential as Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings or Stephen King’s On Writing have been on previous generations.
Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove. His new book on writing And Then? And Then? What Else? is forthcoming from Liverlight/W.W. Norton in 2024. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, was published by Liveright/W.W. Norton in 2021.
Handler has received commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Reperatory Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has collaborated with artist Maira Kalman on a series of books for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and with musicians Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) and Torquil Campbell (of Stars).
His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.
He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books and one son.
Louis Ledford and Norah McLaughlin specialize in harmony singing not unlike the Everly’s, Simon and Garfunkle, or Gram with Emmylou.
The songs are by Ledford, some of his friends as well as choice covers that you or your grandparents have never heard played quite like this before.
Louis Ledford has written, recorded and performed music for decades. The verdant fields of Virginia, the fragrant wards of New Orleans and most recently, the drizzly climes of Bellingham, WA have all been home.
Norah McLaughlin has been performing since she was a Whatcom County Kid in many wonderful bands including Kitty Kitty, Alamo Social Club and Yogoman Burning Band.
Doors open at 6:30.
